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British Orientalism and the Bengal Renaissance : the dynamics of Indian modernization 1773-1835 /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kopf, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]
Edición:Reprint 2019.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • I. The cultural policy of warren hastings
  • II. The orientalist in search of a golden age
  • III. Wellesley's "Oxford of the east"
  • IV. Recruitment of a faculty
  • V. The college as pivot of an institutional complex
  • VI. The college as a center for linguistic modernization and literary revival
  • VII. The students at the college: indianization and intellectual development
  • VIII. The college environment and the emergence of a modern intelligentsia in Bengal
  • IX. Evangelical anti-hinduism and the polarization of cultural policy for India
  • X. Marquess Hastings's response in Calcutta: orientalist renaissance as a popular culture ideal
  • XI. The new frontiers of orientalist scholarship under H.H. Wilson
  • XII. The transmission of orientalist ideals and the intellectual awakening of the Calcutta intelligentsia
  • XIII. A return to the exile mentality and the dissolution of the college of fort William
  • XIV. Macaulayism and the defeat of the orientalists
  • XV. Macaulayism and the Bengali intelligentsia: the seeds of ambivalence and the beginnings of Indian nationalism
  • XVI. The quest for new perspectives on the encounter of civilizations
  • Bibliography
  • Index